{"id":4404,"date":"2013-11-05T16:41:30","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T16:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/?p=4404"},"modified":"2013-11-05T16:41:53","modified_gmt":"2013-11-05T16:41:53","slug":"you-got-me-this-time-grandwestsa-but-im-watching-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/2013\/11\/you-got-me-this-time-grandwestsa-but-im-watching-you\/","title":{"rendered":"You got me this time, GrandWest Casino. But I&#8217;m watching you :)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, <a href=\"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/2013\/11\/the-same-procedure-as-last-year-grandwest\/\">after spotting one of their billboards featuring seemingly dubious grammar<\/a>, I revisited <a href=\"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/2012\/07\/grand-west-casino-cares-about-apostrophes-as-much-as-i-do\/\">a year-old conversation with GrandWest Casino<\/a> to take them to task for their poor use of the basic building blocks of English.<\/p>\n<p>This is the billboard:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tatgr-580x386.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"386\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tatgr-580x386.jpg 580w, https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tatgr-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tatgr.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Given their <a href=\"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/2013\/08\/finally-good-grammar-is-the-cool-kid-in-class-well-cool-enough-to-get-onto-buzzfeed-at-least\/\" target=\"_blank\">remarkably quick response to the Missing Apostrophe Fiasco<\/a>, I expected to hear back from them with an explanation of what had gone wrong this time. <\/p>\n<p>Two days later and they&#8217;ve just responded. Again they&#8217;ve impressed me with the time they&#8217;ve taken to respond to my little grammar grumbles. But unlike the last time, I&#8217;m the one left with the rosy cheeks. Because this time, I was wrong. And here&#8217;s why:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GrandWestSA\/status\/397760531831853056\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/jgw-580x855.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"855\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4405\" border=\"0\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/jgw-580x855.jpg 580w, https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/jgw-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/jgw.jpg 782w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s that. I was wrong. This time. You&#8217;ve evened the score GrandWest but that doesn&#8217;t mean I&#8217;m not still watching you. And those absconding apostrophes \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, after spotting one of their billboards featuring seemingly dubious grammar, I revisited a year-old conversation with GrandWest Casino to take them to task for their poor use of the basic building blocks of English. This is the billboard: Given their remarkably quick response to the Missing Apostrophe Fiasco, I&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4404"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4404"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4408,"href":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4404\/revisions\/4408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}